Hello Mr Golf driver...
Discussion
Encountered a total moron on the roads this afternoon and wished I'd had some means of communicating the following handy hints on driving to him...
1. The right-hand lane of a dual carriageway is not designed for your own personal use.
2. That Truvelo in Chalfont St Peter is indeed usually live. Set to 34 mph last time I heard.
3. Tailgating does not make the car in front go faster. Especially not when it's a Land Rover.
4. My Griff 500 does not go slower than other Griff 500s just because there's a girlie driving it.
5. Keep your hands on the wheel...
6. Lights are very pretty things, but I certainly won't get out of the way of someone in a light-flashing frenzy when it's not safe to do so. Don't suppose you even saw the motorbike, did you?
OK, spleen vented. I feel better now.
Thanks for listening....
1. The right-hand lane of a dual carriageway is not designed for your own personal use.
2. That Truvelo in Chalfont St Peter is indeed usually live. Set to 34 mph last time I heard.
3. Tailgating does not make the car in front go faster. Especially not when it's a Land Rover.
4. My Griff 500 does not go slower than other Griff 500s just because there's a girlie driving it.
5. Keep your hands on the wheel...
6. Lights are very pretty things, but I certainly won't get out of the way of someone in a light-flashing frenzy when it's not safe to do so. Don't suppose you even saw the motorbike, did you?
OK, spleen vented. I feel better now.
Thanks for listening....Sgirl,
I can totally empathise. My fiancee, chan drove our Chim 450 today and I must say, the Golf drivers are mad!!, followed a close second to Mondeos (obviously now taken the idiot mantle off the Vectra drivers!), and Focuses, of all cars!! because she wouldnt do above 80 on the M5, and subsequent slip road, this idiot in the Mondeo was flashing us, and obviously wanted to kill himself, and us, getting past!!! One offs I can kinda understand, but 3 times today while she was driving this happened with the above mentioned cars! I don't for the life of me know what they're trying to proove, our TVRs can out pace easily most others in 5th gear!! It seems that guys in lesser powered cars just dont like being overtaken, or see a woman driving this type, quite sad really.
Chris
I can totally empathise. My fiancee, chan drove our Chim 450 today and I must say, the Golf drivers are mad!!, followed a close second to Mondeos (obviously now taken the idiot mantle off the Vectra drivers!), and Focuses, of all cars!! because she wouldnt do above 80 on the M5, and subsequent slip road, this idiot in the Mondeo was flashing us, and obviously wanted to kill himself, and us, getting past!!! One offs I can kinda understand, but 3 times today while she was driving this happened with the above mentioned cars! I don't for the life of me know what they're trying to proove, our TVRs can out pace easily most others in 5th gear!! It seems that guys in lesser powered cars just dont like being overtaken, or see a woman driving this type, quite sad really.
Chris
Nope, nothing wrong with diesels, just the drivers in the Golf varients!!! Am sure they think they're new ton and a half golf is a bavarien rocket ship capable of sweeping all before it!!, from what I have seen tof them the past few months anyway.
As they all seem to have new reg plates, I am assuming that the 'drivers' believe they have more oomph than they actually have ( although they are darned quick for diesels). I do admit that on a couple of occasions I have regressed back to teenage youth and put my foot down before the Golf driver could overtake and watch them fade in the rear view mirror,, not something I am proud of doing at all, but, if a golf driver was in a TVR, am sure if they showed the same misplaced arrogance, they would be dead!!
As they all seem to have new reg plates, I am assuming that the 'drivers' believe they have more oomph than they actually have ( although they are darned quick for diesels). I do admit that on a couple of occasions I have regressed back to teenage youth and put my foot down before the Golf driver could overtake and watch them fade in the rear view mirror,, not something I am proud of doing at all, but, if a golf driver was in a TVR, am sure if they showed the same misplaced arrogance, they would be dead!!
I'm definitely coming round to anual comulsary re-testing / re-training of motorists. Had this discussion in the pub lsat night - brothers gf was saying that this was stupid - why should she have do go through this when she doesn't have any points or accident history.
Thing is though, for a rule to be effective, then it has to apply to everybody. I don't think that people will necessarily drive differently on their tests as the Golf driver that you describe SGirl probably didn't think that he was doing anything wrong - possibly a nice shock when they fail. When I beep at people who cut across the marked lanes on a roundabout, resulting in everybody emergency braking, they just look back in a what have I done sort of way.
Until this happens though the numpties have it I'm afraid.
Thing is though, for a rule to be effective, then it has to apply to everybody. I don't think that people will necessarily drive differently on their tests as the Golf driver that you describe SGirl probably didn't think that he was doing anything wrong - possibly a nice shock when they fail
. When I beep at people who cut across the marked lanes on a roundabout, resulting in everybody emergency braking, they just look back in a what have I done sort of way. Until this happens though the numpties have it I'm afraid.
I agree with that Daydreamer,
Most cars now can do at least 120mph top speed, trouble is, the people who drive them do so seemingly to the limit. For us who do have performance cars, we know we have to take more care and pay more attention to what we're doing on the roads (most of the time!!!!), trouble is, the bog standard Golf ( or any other hatch) driver has no idea how dangerous they're driving, and can easily go out of their depth without realising, 'till its too late of course!
As I said, this happened 3 times today when these cars tried to bully my other half in the 160+mph TVR 450 into making her go faster than she wanted to!
To balence things, there are a huge amount of very decent drivers out there, most in fact, it's just the few, as usual!
Chris
Most cars now can do at least 120mph top speed, trouble is, the people who drive them do so seemingly to the limit. For us who do have performance cars, we know we have to take more care and pay more attention to what we're doing on the roads (most of the time!!!!
), trouble is, the bog standard Golf ( or any other hatch) driver has no idea how dangerous they're driving, and can easily go out of their depth without realising, 'till its too late of course! As I said, this happened 3 times today when these cars tried to bully my other half in the 160+mph TVR 450 into making her go faster than she wanted to!
To balence things, there are a huge amount of very decent drivers out there, most in fact, it's just the few, as usual!
Chris
I agree, The pug 307 I have the use of (HDI 110
) easily goes over a ton (with lots more to go). I have been over a ton in it (on private land of course
) and it is a little scary. Thing is for that extra speed you arrive at your destination not a lot quicker. Whats the point???
U want scary tho...... 95mph in a 300tdi Defender with vague steering.
Err needed to change my pants after that.
) easily goes over a ton (with lots more to go). I have been over a ton in it (on private land of course) and it is a little scary. Thing is for that extra speed you arrive at your destination not a lot quicker. Whats the point??? U want scary tho...... 95mph in a 300tdi Defender with vague steering.
Err needed to change my pants after that. S Girl, I totally agree with you about not being able to comminicate with other numpties while driving, so a few years ago I decided to do something about it. I bought a moving message display system (you know the red LED type) and stuck it on my back shelf in my Granada. It had 12 programmable memories so I could put various statements in and using the supplied remote control, I could send messages to the car behind. Originally I did it for a laugh, but it was great fun having a numpty tail-gating me while I hit P2 resulting in POLICE AHEAD being scrolled from behind. Just watch them hit the brakes!
There were other various polite motoring comments comparable to pro-creation etc, and biblical quotations in the format "Go forth and.." you get my drift. I thought that this was an excellent system and all vehicles should have it.
Unfortunately Hertordshire Traffic Plod didn't agree. They objected strongly to a message of, "If you want to get THAT close, I can pull over and you can shag me" Officer muttered something about distracting other road users, driving without due care (using the remote etc), and offensive language... oh well I thought it was funny.
There were other various polite motoring comments comparable to pro-creation etc, and biblical quotations in the format "Go forth and.." you get my drift. I thought that this was an excellent system and all vehicles should have it.
Unfortunately Hertordshire Traffic Plod didn't agree. They objected strongly to a message of, "If you want to get THAT close, I can pull over and you can shag me" Officer muttered something about distracting other road users, driving without due care (using the remote etc), and offensive language... oh well I thought it was funny.
daydreamer said: I'm definitely coming round to anual comulsary re-testing / re-training of motorists.
God forbid.
And there's no way this would affect the pr@tts that are just bloody-minded when they get behind a wheel in close contact with other traffic. Excluding the minority that can't see, have no sense of spatial awareness and/or are unable to do up their own trousers, these pr@tts are just as likely able to 'turn it on' for an annual test which would have to have a very generous pass limit to avoid totally removing traffic congestion in one stroke!
The majority of drivers are diligent, observant and safe motorists. Why inconvenience these people with an annual test and the cost of the infrastructure to run it?
Imposing an annual driving test would IMHO be worse than the apparent propagation of Gatsos and lead inevitably to more people driving without a licence or insurance.
Hutch
Actually I "borrowed" the one I ordered from work, which came from RS Components. It was about £300 then, but now you can get them from Maplins for under £100, I beleive. Great fun, just be careful and make sure theyre 12V ! 
Also mine had a wired remote control, and now they're infra red, so theyre even easier to use. Still have to run 12V there, but I just used the power from my amp as it was in the boot
I also had a rear facing CCTV camera and a 4.5" TFT screen so the passenger could watch the reaction of the following motorist after a message had been sent. You can imagine how I felt when two blue flashing lights came on from inside the grill of the un-marked senator...my mate was laughing his head off and typed in "whoops" the officers didn't find it so funny !
Also mine had a wired remote control, and now they're infra red, so theyre even easier to use. Still have to run 12V there, but I just used the power from my amp as it was in the boot
I also had a rear facing CCTV camera and a 4.5" TFT screen so the passenger could watch the reaction of the following motorist after a message had been sent. You can imagine how I felt when two blue flashing lights came on from inside the grill of the un-marked senator...my mate was laughing his head off and typed in "whoops" the officers didn't find it so funny !
ultimasimon said:
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You can imagine how I felt when two blue flashing lights came on from inside the grill of the un-marked senator...my mate was laughing his head off and typed in "whoops" the officers didn't find it so funny !
Classic, wot a no sense of humour day day then
. Harry
BB
hut49 said:
daydreamer said: I'm definitely coming round to anual comulsary re-testing / re-training of motorists.
God forbid.
And there's no way this would affect the pr@tts that are just bloody-minded when they get behind a wheel in close contact with other traffic. Excluding the minority that can't see, have no sense of spatial awareness and/or are unable to do up their own trousers, these pr@tts are just as likely able to 'turn it on' for an annual test which would have to have a very generous pass limit to avoid totally removing traffic congestion in one stroke!
The majority of drivers are diligent, observant and safe motorists. Why inconvenience these people with an annual test and the cost of the infrastructure to run it?
Imposing an annual driving test would IMHO be worse than the apparent propagation of Gatsos and lead inevitably to more people driving without a licence or insurance.
Hutch
unfortuantly i agree, most the people i know who passed their driving test first time have gone on to crash and/or become bad drivers...
you can "fake it" for your annual retake just like most people "faked it" for their original test, the only way i system like this would work is for a 'big brother style' camera sitting in your car watching your EVERY MOVE... which is totally unfeasable and would catch good drivers as well as bad...
in fact it would state EVERY driver on the road is a fooking liabilty and should not be allowed to drive, ranging from the boy racer, the rep, the old person, the school run mum, the sportscar driver...
although this has given me an idea for a new 'reality' TV show...
say in a geordie accent:
"lets put a camera in 10 different cars and see how they drive..."
I passed my test a few months ago.
The test isnt the problem. Its hard enough as it is.
Its the fact that 99% of the people who drive on the roads would fail their test.
Regarding Motorways.. 2 reasons why there not on the test:
1) Would you want to see learners on the Motorway?
2) What would people in Cornwall do?
The test isnt the problem. Its hard enough as it is.
Its the fact that 99% of the people who drive on the roads would fail their test.
Regarding Motorways.. 2 reasons why there not on the test:
1) Would you want to see learners on the Motorway?
2) What would people in Cornwall do?
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